• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Judge Strikes Down State Law Pertaining to Elections

Judge Strikes Down State Law Pertaining to Elections

March 14, 2006 By admin Leave a Comment

A judge in Jefferson City says a state law keeping people convicted of federal crimes from running for public office is unconstitutional. Former State Representative Henry Rizzo of Kansas City wants to run for another term on the Jackson County Legislature, but the law passed after he was elected to his first term would have kept him from that. He was convicted of a federal misdemeanor in 1991. The judge in Jefferson City says the law violates equal protection standards because it bars candidacies based on federal convictions, but not on state convictions. Attorney General Jay Nixon says he’ll ask the State Supreme Court to overturn the ruling.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Elections, Supreme Court

Subscribe to our daily newsletter

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.



Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Chiefs will likely be without starting left tackle Eric Fisher

Patrick … [Read More...]

Chiefs will defend their Super Bowl title

The Kansas … [Read More...]

Pinson helps deliver big win for Mizzou at Tennessee

Mizzou … [Read More...]

25th ranked Lady Bears get past Drake

Missouri … [Read More...]

Mahomes has cleared NFL concussion protocol

Patrick … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC